The Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia
is organizing a two-days Conference entitled
The Cyprus Problem, Its Solution and the Broader Implications
Friday, March 11, 2016
09:15-19:15
Saturday, March 12, 2016
09:30-10:40
UNESCO Amphitheatre, Europa Building
University of Nicosia
Friday, March 11, 2016
09:15-09:40 Coffee and Registration
Welcoming Address:
09:40-09:50 Andreas Theophanous
Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of
European Studies and International Relations, President of
the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia
Opening Address:
09:50-10:10 Michalis Attalides
Professor of Sociology, Department of European Studies
and International Relations, University of Nicosia
I. Historical Background
Chair: Andreas Theophanous
10:10-10:30 Emilios Solomou
Historian, Senior Research Fellow, Center for European and International Affairs,
Executive Vice President for Administration
University of Nicosia, and
Hubert Faustmann
Associate Professor for History and
Political Science, University of Nicosia
Lessons from the Past for the Future
10:30-10:50 Ahmet Djavit An
Political Activist and Author
HOW TO AVOID PARTITION THOUGH FEDERALIZATION OF
THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS?
10:50-11:10 Petros Savvides
Defense Analyst, PhD cand. Modern History, MPhil History, Associated with the Center for European and International Affairs and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia
The Strategic Ambitions of Ankara in Cyprus: from Nihat Erim, to Barbaros and Islamization
11:10-11:40 Discussion
11:40-11:50 Coffee Break
II. Issues of Governance and Political Economy
Chair: Constantinos Adamides
11:50-12:10 Constantinos Mavroeidis
Attorney-at-Law, LL.M.
THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTINUITY OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS:
A POLITICO-JURIDICAL IMPERATIVE
12:10-12:30 Soteris Kattos
PhD Political Sociology, Associated with the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia
THE CYPRUS CONFLICT, PROSPECTS OF RECONCILIATION AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GOVERNANCE: A THEORETICAL ACCOUNT/APPROACH
12:30-12:50 Farid Mirbagheri
Professor of International Relations,
Department of European Studies
and International Relations, University of Nicosia
The Cyprus Solution: a Two-Tier Approach
12:50-13:20 Discussion
13:20-16:30 Break
Chair: Michalis Kontos
16:30-16:50 G. Alan Tar
Board of Governors Professor, Department of Political Science
Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies, Rutgers University
Resolving the Cyprus Crisis: Can the Experience of Other Countries Help?
16:50-17:10 Umut Bozkurt
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations,
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus
GOING BEYOND A NEOLIBERAL SOLUTION: ENVISAGING ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC STRATEGIES IN A POST-SETTLEMENT CYPRUS
17:10-17:30 Andreas Theophanous
Professor of Political Economy, Head of the Department of European Studies and International Relations, President of the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia
What Model for Cyprus? Economic, Political and Strategic Considerations
17:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:15 Coffee Break
III. Strategic Considerations
Chair: Andreas Theophanous
18:15-18:35 Muhittin Tolga Özsağlam
Republican Turkish Party, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Nicosia, Cyprus
Security Perceptions of Turkish Cypriots
18:35-18:55 Michalis Kontos
Associated with the Department of Law and the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia
Cyprus and the Turkish Quest for Hegemony
18:55-19:15 Discussion
Saturday, March 12, 2016
09:00-09:30 Coffee and Registration
Chair: Petros Savvides
09:30-09:50 Theodoros Tsakiris
Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Hydrocarbons, University of Nicosia
UNLOCKING THE HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF
CYPRUS: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PRECONDITIONS
09:50-10:10 Constantinos Adamides
Assistant Professor of International Studies, University of Nicosia, and
Odysseas Christou
Assistant Professor of Government, International Law and
International Relations, University of Nicosia
COULD THE SOLUTION OF THE CYPRUS PROBLEM ALLOW
ENERGY CONSIDERATIONS TO ALTER REGIONAL GEOPOLITICAL RELATIONS?
10:10-10:30 Discussion
10:30-10:40 Andreas Theophanous
CONCLUDING REMARKS
R.S.V.P.: 22841600, e-mail: cceia@unic.ac.cy